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Press rush to the Zugliget Church refugee camp

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

August 27 - September 24 1989
Hungary, Budapest, Malteser refugee camp Zugliget Church
Created By: Gerd Hernacz

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

East German Refugees at the Order of Malta Relief Camp, Budapest, 10 September 1989

Members of the press at the entrance gate to the Zugliget Church in Budapest, where a Malteser refugee camp was established for GDR citizens; Malteser emergency services began a large-scale operation in Hungary on August 27, 1989: "10,000 refugees from the GDR are being cared for in three camps before they are allowed to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany." (Retrieved and translated from Malteser Hilfsdienst, Erzdiözese München und Freising: Chronik 1955-2005, on April 23, 2009)

Depicts

banner (flag), camera, crowd, fence, logo, megaphone, photographer, press, the, television camera

Context

camp, celebration, Christian Church, crowd, embassy, joy, omnibus, press, the, refugee, television, wave of refugees

People/Organizations

Order of Malta Ambulance Corps

Places

Zugliget church

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